<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Scott Silva <<a href="mailto:ssilva@sgvwater.com">ssilva@sgvwater.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
on 7-2-2008 3:14 PM Victor Padro spake the following:<br>
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"It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion."<br>
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On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Scott Silva <<a href="mailto:ssilva@sgvwater.com" target="_blank">ssilva@sgvwater.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:ssilva@sgvwater.com" target="_blank">ssilva@sgvwater.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
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on 7-2-2008 8:52 AM Victor Padro spake the following:<br>
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On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Rudi Ahlers<br>
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<mailto:<a href="mailto:Rudi@softdux.com" target="_blank">Rudi@softdux.com</a>>>> wrote:<br>
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nate wrote:<br>
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Rudi Ahlers wrote:<br>
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I think my action plan now will be to figure out how to<br>
install CentOS<br>
on a USB memory stick and make it boot on any machine<br>
(making it easy to<br>
replace if need be), and then to play around with the<br>
RAID a<br>
bit and see<br>
how well it works.<br>
<br>
Another option you may want to consider is a PATA->CF<br>
adapter. I use<br>
these for my OpenBSD firewalls and have them installed on<br>
1GB CF<br>
cards.<br>
Performance should be better? Compatibility certainly is<br>
better,<br>
there's<br>
no way I could boot to USB off these aging P3-800<br>
systems. The<br>
CF cards<br>
just show up as regular HDs<br>
<br>
I use these ($7):<br>
<a href="http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SY-ADIDE2CF-B1&cpc=SCH" target="_blank">http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SY-ADIDE2CF-B1&cpc=SCH</a><br>
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Paired with Lexar CF cards. Not all CF is created equal, well<br>
maybe it is<br>
today. I found my Lexar CF cards were 5-10x faster than my<br>
Kingston cards<br>
of the same size, which surprised me. Not that I need high<br>
performance in<br>
firewalls that do no disk I/O but it was painful for the OS<br>
install to<br>
take hours(Kingston) instead of minutes(Lexar). Both<br>
pairs of CF<br>
cards<br>
are a few years old, today maybe everything out there is<br>
reasonably<br>
fast.<br>
<br>
At least with the above adapters be aware that those<br>
adapters above<br>
do stick up. I think a 2U chassis can fit them(I have tons of<br>
experience<br>
in supermicro systems). But no guarantees. You may need<br>
another<br>
adapter<br>
or perhaps a male to female IDE cable so that you can<br>
mount it<br>
another<br>
way in the chassis.<br>
<br>
I suppose you could even get two and run RAID.<br>
<br>
Just don't put your swap on the flash if you can avoid it.<br>
<br>
nate<br>
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Thanx, nate<br>
<br>
That's a good suggestion, but I think the USB memory sticks could<br>
work better / more reliable, and will be easier to access in the<br>
cabinet. I'll play around with it a bit and see how it works.<br>
<br>
<br>
--<br>
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Rudi Ahlers<br>
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Hi,<br>
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(I apologize in advance if someone thinks this is OT)<br>
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I've been reading this thread since it started, and what I could<br>
really say is you should go for freenas, it can be installed in<br>
a matter of minutes in a usb pendrive, I use it on a 2gb<br>
kingston one using an IBM eServer tower chassis, Intel D201GLY2<br>
mainboard, 1Gb 667Mhz RAM, 2 HDs those are 750gb SATA in RAID5<br>
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2 drives in raid5? Then it is really only a raid 0, and will fail<br>
sooner or later.<br>
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Even if it's fake RAID5(RAID software)?<br>
Didn't know that.<br>
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Raid 5 need a minimum of 3 drives. The only way to get 2 drives in software raid is to create the array with the "missing" statement.<br>
With only 2 drives, you have a stripe with a failed parity.<br>
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So 2 drives is already missing one, and the next failure is doom.<br>
Raid 1 (mirror) is fine with 2 drives.<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Then I will have to backup ASAP and re install the Array in Raid1, thank you scott.<br>But the odd thing its that I've never had any errors regarding RAID or even HDs.<br>
Will recheck my config.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
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